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yeah that's true! You can't really do that, these models are just polygons, all we do is doublecheck the other methods' predictions' overlap with these polygons as a second step.
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>It looked like they were also working on considering location when determining species, but the model I use doesn't do that. I do this in fish for very different work and there's a good chance the model for your species does
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>Karl Popper >While there, he lived on a cooperative farm. He later claimed that nothing prepares the mind for philosophy like milking a cow. These fibs are just too plausible to be detectable!
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
Another feature: if you make a repo and name it your username, you will get this message: >USERNAME is a special repository: its README.md will appear on your profile! then you get a template with some emoji and a nice way to spruce up y
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
I don't understand the outsized media attention to this festival. Every music festival I've been to eventually turned into a huge puddle of mud, where you're stuck for hours trying to leave the festival as all the cars get bo
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I remember a blog post on HN from an ex-DeepMind/Google Brain person who postulated that the research group existed for visibility; you use the research to attract talent who sees the cool stuff you work on and gets excited, but once h
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
R even has packages to read in NanoSIMS data! [1] There are perhaps a hundred NanoSIMS machines in the world as they're extremely expensive [2]. Yet we have an R package on CRAN to analyse their data! [1] https://cran.r-proj
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>Five people were shot in a police-related incident is a passive voice. The people receive the action. >A policeman shot five people today is active voice. The policeman shoots people. I use this particular example because it's a
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Australia has many different seasons depending on the area's climate, which all define what is possible to eat: Noongar people from South-west Australia and Yolnu people from Northern Arnhem land have six seasons, Anangu of central Aus
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Oh good, so Beanie Babies are also money :)
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>They are great for taking the blame for decisions you had planned on making. One might say that's the point of consultants! They're there to externalise accountability, you're outsourcing taking the heat.
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I'm sceptical of those SNPs linked with baldness etc. SNPs don't cause phenotypes, they're associated with them. The guy has been dead for ~5000 years, but they're looking at SNPs linked with these phenotypes today ; su
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>My son’s major motivation for learning to read came from watching us play Breath of the Wild and getting tired of not knowing what was going on. My son gets a few dozen minutes of Youtube kids as a treat if he has done well. The in-buil
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Ah, remember the days when the Internet still held infinite promise? When we outright dismissed that it's possible for China to control its own internet? When we could imagine that giant corporations would take over the world, but c
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That's kind of the premise of Chiang's The Lifecycle of Software Objects! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lifecycle_of_Software_Obje...
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You make renouncing citizenship sound far easier than it is: renouncing US citizenship is irrevocable. You might have elderly relatives you want to look after once they become too frail to look after themselves; you can't do that on re
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>So where are these Americans going? Nowhere? Americans are (almost) the only people subject to income tax even on income not made in the US. You'd need to get a very good income to live on two sets of taxes (how unfree for such s
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
I've just finished reading Feyerabend's Tyranny of Science which goes down a very similar path to OP's interview: >In this wide-ranging and accessible book Feyerabend challenges some modern myths about science, including
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
One of Graeber's points not included in OP's article is that these jobs partially exist as a signal of power: the big manager needs to show status by having three EAs, not just one, even though three EAs do not much. LLMs can&#x27
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Some recent examples are a daylight shooting of a former Chechen Rebel commander in Berlin [1], Shapoval's death by carbomb in Kiyv [2], and of course, Litvinenko's Polonium poisoning in London [3]. Glukhovsky is wise in not annou
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It looks like this article is an excerpt from 'More Voices from the Radium Age', which focuses on 1900 to 1935, so in that context it makes sense to not include Verne. They would've needed to include Mary Shelley, too.
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Personally, I feel like that 'gap' comes from most SF writers having a physics/maths backgrounds while the really 'cool' stuff is happening in biology. Hard SF generally focuses on physics, not biology. Greg Bear ha
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Blaming smartphones is a recent meme for a phenomenon that precedes smartphones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone >Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community is a 2000 nonfiction book by
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As someone who dips into nextflow from time to time, I'd strongly suggest by developing your pipeline based on an existing nf-core pipeline or the nf-core templates. nf-core comes with a bunch of nicer defaults like profiles for SLURM,
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>I think for a particular segment of society we've actually gotten much better at putting ambitious people to work Yes yes yes!! There's this great essay from Stephen Jay Gould on why we haven't had 0.400 hitters in baseba
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Fun story for the HN crowd: The research vessel Falkor (too), named after the luckdragon from the Neverending Story, was paid for by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, ex-Google CEO. Lots of philanthropic funding in marine research vessels: another de
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I'm honestly amazed people still buy at Amazon. It's similar to AliExpress in terms of reliability, but with the added bonus of the listing lying to your face!
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>When perfection is achieved and there is nothing left to delete, you can do this: > delete delete! I guess having no code is perfectly in line with this concept of perfection: the best line of code is the unwritten one.
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There's a wonderful paper on 1) from a few years ago: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo... >Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? >We show that the [neuroscience
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While Ray Hilborn is one of the biggest (most publishing) voices in academic fisheries research, others absolutely hate him: Greenpeace calls him a 'overfishing denier' https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/research&

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